Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test the political winds in Canada before the meeting of the Commonwealth's Prime Ministers in London scheduled soon, when Empire policies will finally be threshed out. The provocation for direct reply was great: some of the Prime Minister's supporters talked angrily of an "imperialist ramp" (i.e., "Swindle...
...maybe not. What suspicious Reader Ingold saw was the end section of a pontoon used by LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) to float the ramp when it cannot get up to a beach...
...that very moment a volley of rifle shots rang out of the fields above us at the base of the stone ramp guarding Troina...
Stand up there on the ramp behind the press-box. Cast your eyes over that magnificent panorama of baseball, football, and softball fields. Then, gaze towards the Field House. Land, land, land. All the way to the fences and off into the purple haze of Brighton it stretches. What a nightmare for Henry George...
...Woman. In February seven men of the First Relief got over the divide. The huts in the first camp were buried so deep the seven men could not see them. They called. "Something like a woman came up out of a hole in the snow." Others "crawled up the ramp of frozen snow to mew at the seven men from beyond the mountains. . . . They looked like mummies...